Monday, April 21, 2008

In October of 1995, Porcell was preparing to move out of the Philadelphia temple and looking to sell a few random items he had laying around. One such item was the original reels to Skiz 4, otherwise known as the Wide Awake "CT Hardcore" 7". My girlfriend (now wife) Traci and I decided to make the purchase and add the reels to our collection. Originally, with Porcell's suggestion, we had thoughts of re-releasing the 7" as an LP with the extra tracks that up until then had never been released. Like many plans and ideas that pop up, the LP never happened, but eventually by the late 90s, Jeff from Smorgasbord Records contacted me and asked to borrow the reels back so that they could use them for the discography that Smorgasbord was now going to do.

At some point, shortly after us buying the reels, Porcell scratched up a few Wide Awake photos and a couple of other random items, wrote the following little memories down, packed it up in a manilla envelope and sent it our way. I always thought this letter was great and really summed up some priceless memories. -TM DCXX

3 comments:

I remember this day... remember you guys walking off with Porcell while i stood & waited, just a few feet from the Project X reels (& the Judge 7" reels, i think?). believe me, i was contemplating stuffing those reels under my shirt until my conscience kicked in!

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